12 Days Of New Jersey Devils Christmas
By Nick Villano
On the second day of Christmans the Devils gave to me… two Jespers scoring
This one is looking ahead a little bit, but when you’re in the basement of the Eastern Conference, you cannot help yourself. Jesper Bratt has been good to start the season, despite missing a few weeks with a broken jaw. He’s proven his fall from grace last season was more rookie wall than it was the true value of a sixth-round pick.
Jesper Boqvist was a player who some thought only needed one year of overseas play before he was ready to make the jump to the NHL. Then, he broke his wrist. That sort of derailed his season, forcing him to spend another year in Sweden.
Right now, Boqvist has 17 points for Brynas IF in the team’s first 24 games. He’s been very good for most of the year as a second-line guy in an adult league.
Bratt has 11 points in 15 games at the NHL level. You’d really like the two of them to turn their immense skill into goal scoring sooner rather than later. Bratt is just 20 years old, the same age as Boqvist. These two players have so much talent, that their ceiling is sky high. However, all we can ask for Christmas is the two of them to score now, and then let us look starry eyed into the future while we watch the Jesper line dominate the middle six.